{"product_id":"the-need-to-hold-still-poems-paperback","title":"The Need to Hold Still: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the National Book Award for Poetry \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn adventurer, Lisel Mueller pursues the protean possibilities of communication. In Dreiser's works she finds language solid, \"as plain as money, \/ a workable means of exchange.\" More often she experiences exhilaration in the shapes that communication makes possible. In \"Talking with Helen,\" for example, she re-creates Heller Keller's flash of discovery when water suddenly became language, the stream that connected time and space, maple leaves and hands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMueller's poetry links varying forms: music and discourse, memory and immediacy. Perennial weeds in her title poem recall ancient times and prayerful monks. Musical names--\"Teasel \/ yarrow \/ goldenrod \/ wheat \/ bed straw\"--hold the moment still like the echoes of a tolling bell. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm trying to make connections,\" Lisel Mueller says of her poems, \"looking for links between where we have been and where we are going, between the life outside and the life within.\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisel Mueller\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1924. She published six books of poetry with LSU Press, including \u003ci\u003eAlive Together: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(1996), which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize; \u003ci\u003eWaving from Shore\u003c\/i\u003e (1989); \u003ci\u003eSecond Language \u003c\/i\u003e(1986); \u003ci\u003eThe Need to Hold Still\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), winner of the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Private Life\u003c\/i\u003e, the 1975 Lamont Poetry Selection; and \u003ci\u003eDependencies\u003c\/i\u003e (1998). Her writing honors included the Carl Sandburg Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9.02 x 5.49 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 1980\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52726434595123,"sku":"9780807106709","price":28.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/S1dwYXV3SC91TUNUTDFSVVNNQVJsQT09.webp?v=1763737199","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-need-to-hold-still-poems-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}